h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I listened to that cd i acquired yesterday OMG! i'm really getting into these smiley things. the jason downes track was okay, but i suspect, like you said, it's probably not the best on the album (at least i hope not) by the end of it i was really smug and pompous and feeling even sorrier for the women that read elle, if that's the kind of music they listen to too, it was really, truely awful; very twee, all the tracks started off promisingly, some good funky beats, then spoiled it all with some bird, thinking she's isobel campell (on the girlies who sing with Belle and sebastian) all high pitched - sweet - st winifred's school choir stuff.... bad....

I listened to the SFA album last night
Totally fantastic.

it is good isn't it?

I'm p***ed off now... i'm supposed to be going to see turin brakes tonight through in edinburgh, but it would appear that they would rather do top of the flops than entertain me! huh, the cheek of it. its been postponed till the 16th which is the same night as the avalanches play glasgow and i wanted to go to that too .... bugger!

I was blown away by it actually. I was expecting something good but wow. Indescribable.

I read something in the Metro on the way to work this morning about The Avalanches, generally praising what they've done. Turin Breaks or The Avalanches. Probably right now I'd say The Avalanches as that's the kind of mood I'm in. At another time, it'd be Turin Breaks

You're a great help!

problem is, i've already got the tickets for turin brakes but not for avalanches, my friend writes for a website and she's been trying to ligg tickets, but without sucess, so i haven't got tickets for that. i don't know... i want to go to both, but that ain't happening. the avalanches are kinda dancey and its in the arches, all a bit scary (although i'll try anything twice ) real pisser, imagine wanting to do totp instead of coming to edinburgh (oh, just answered my own question... edinburgh

Does look that way. If you've got tickets, then use them.
Me I've got a pair of tickets for a show that was supposed to be in june or july that I'll be seeing in december (assuming they don't cancel/postpone again).

embday interesting?

I'm completely wasted now... just saw that groove armada are playing the QM in October....

i keep meaning to ask... why BHB? and op?

Guns n Roses in whatever lineup Axl Rose currently has. BHB? - Been Here Before? A short pointer to the fact that I was already active onsite. op - Other Person see http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F32191?thread=108019&post=912373#p912373

ah ......

well if you think that you can use diabetes as an excuse for getting away with liking gomez more than BDB or indeed any other disagreement we might have in the future ......

ah ..... chocolate from oxfam .... its all making sense!

I don't use it as an excuse and I'm going to be doing my darndest NOT to use it as an excuse for doing anything for the rest of my life.
I had the thing for the chocolate that you can get in Oxfam a long time before I was told I had this blasted condition (they say if it's going to get you, it will ) The particular chocolate is Maya Gold by Green and Blacks.

When's your birfday? .... i'll mind and get you some

i wouldn't have thought for a moment you'd use it as an excuse, hell, if diabetes is the worst you'll get, i'd count myself lucky, my 'quit whinging' attitude often makes me seem quite heartless, but i'm not really ....

so how did they discover this? were you feeling unwell for a while?

It's in May.

Diabetes is where it starts. There is no cure (the nearest thing to a cure is transplant stuff, so a different set of drugs). The complications are very very nasty (and they say that you'll probably get some - even minor - complications in the long term, say 15-20 years).

I had been feeling fine. One day just after easter I woke up and couldn't do anything. Massive headache, thirst, feeling really really unwell. Went to the docors and they asked about what was happening and what had been going on leading up to this. I told them I'd lost a lot of weight over a few months, I lost about 25KG over 2 to 3 months. I was drinking lots about 5 or 6 litres+ of water a day. I was having to go to the toilet lots, many many times daily and during the night as well. They asked for a urine sample. When that was checked I was asked for a small blood test. I did that and the doctor then said I think you have diabetes. Classic symptoms. The blood test gave a reading of 33.3 (I don't think the meter reads higher than that) compared to a normal person having a random sample between 4 and 7. I was told to get myself to hospital. Do not pass go, do not collect £200. Then what happened I put in that journal entry.

At least you know what it is now. i hope you don't think i was being flippant about it, i know it can have very serious consequences if its not treated and you don't take your medication, but yours is being treated and you can manage yours. i'm sure it was a frightening experience, but when i see all the really crappy, unfair s**te that happens to others, on the scale of cancer, death, serious disfigurement, liking atomic kitten, i think 'there but for the grace of god' the fact that you're not dead, is certainly something to be celebrated besides, i'd be sick of the sympathy by now, i'd want to get on with my life without everyone treating me as though i had a disability. really didn't mean any offence

It's OK. Some people reactt flippantly because they don't know that much about it or are scared by it.
I'm trying my best to manage it and remember to do everything I need to and be aware of how my body is reacting to everything eg I'm on a hot crowded tube going home from work. Is the sweat rolling down my body because it's hot ot because I've not had a mid afternoon snack and I'm going hypo?
I'll probably sound like the heartless one now, most cancers can be cured. D so far has no readily avaliable cure.
Yes it could be much worse and I'm still getting out there trying to do the same stuff as I did before but it's always now got to have that little thing in my brain watching more closely than ever.
Sometimes it does your head in, othertimes you're fine about it. Talking about what happened for the diagnosis does bring it back though (and I was talking about it a bit over the weekend at the meet as well).
Sorry for being a bit I can't help it.

don't worry about it love, my fault for asking, my fault for being so cavalier about it. it must be a big deal if you've got to deal with it. i'm big on accentuating the positive (oh i can feel some bing crosby coming on!!!) are we cool?

something nicer .... what you up to this weekend?

Don't worry. If people want to know, they'll ask and I'll tell all the gory details If they still are interested after that
There is some research showing that there is a higher incedence of depression and similar in people with long term chronic illnesses (eg D).

I'm , are you ?

This weekend I'll be up in manchester again. This time for a family wedding (a cousin) on saturday.
Tonight I'll be off for a swim down the dive club. Should be good seeing them again as I've not been for several weeks.

dive means something totally different up here!

if it makes you feel better you could make lots of inappropriate comments about me having HAD (very past tense) cervical cancer? .... we're definately

family wedding, that'll be nice, obviously apart from the last couple of weekends, d'you get home alot? good job arthur can look after himself!

Ok then diving a la scuba diving club (not, a dive bar in a west end town, call the police there's a madman around )

No I won't make any comment appart from well done in getting past it.
My uncle died after being getting mouth/throat cancer from smoking only a couple of years back.

Every few months I seem to manage to get to see some part of the family (one sister lives over near Scunthorpe, the rest of the family is manchester). Last weekend I didn't actually go and see the family while I was up there. I decided not to bother as I'll be up again this weekend!
Arthur can certainly look after himself, he's had to for so many years

ah....diving off the dales (is that the correct term?) i've seen the boys doing that .... i can swim, but not very gracefully, i can swim enough to stop me from drowning, but i get a bit bored of the going up and down struggling for breath. there's been some geona type protests at our local pool (i think it would be hypocritcal to join them, as much as i'd love to - don't use the pool, and haven't been back in glasgow all that long) sit down protests, scuffles and everything. it been quite wild.... ah the hedy days of protest marches ....

shame on you for not going to visit your mam.

i know this girl whoes family seem to die and get injured in the strangest ways, everyone i've told usually end up belly laffing at the end of it... but that might be the way i tell them i guess we shouldn't really laff, but isn't life absurd sometimes?